A landmark legal battle over the future of tattooing erupts in Japan after police crack down on tattoo artists in Osaka.
In April 2015, five police detectives raided Taiki Masuda's tattoo studio in the Japanese prefecture of Osaka. He was accused of breaking the law by operating without a doctor's licence.
According to the country's Medical Practitioner's Act: "No person except a medical practitioner shall engage in medical practice."
But the Act, which dates from 1948, doesn't specify what constitutes "medical practice".
However, in 2001, in an attempt to regulate the country's growing permanent makeup industry, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare issued a statement in which it described "putting pigment on a needle tip and inserting it into the skin" as a medical practice that requires a medical practitioner's licence.
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